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Rebirthing

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Rebirthing

London-based rebirthing therapists Gillian Steel (sitting) and Diana Roberts train people in Wellington in 1985. Rebirthing is a psychological therapy which aims to examine and resolve an individual's problematic issues and experiences by taking them back to their birth mentally and emotionally. Rebirthing is believed to release the 'baggage' acquired during a person's birth and subsequent life.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-1985-0093

by Merv Griffiths

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Kerryn Pollock, Alternative health therapies – Psychological therapies, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27956/rebirthing (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 12 April 2011.